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Introduction
Easy Life publishes tips and tutorials for non-IT folks. The main purpose of this website is to share as I learn new things. You can subscribe to the RSS feed, or follow Easy Life on Facebook.
Author: Noumaan Yaqoob
tips Archive
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Howto Quickly Download Search Results to Excel Spreadsheet
Posted on July 27, 2011 | 4 CommentsHow to download Google, Yahoo, Bing top search results to Microsoft Office Excel, spreadsheet or in a csv file format? One way to do that is to manually enter data into your spreadsheet, which seems simple if you are only... -
FFmpeg Based Free and Simple Audio Video Converters for Windows
Posted on September 13, 2010 | No CommentsFFmpeg is a popular command line utility, commonly used to convert media files from one format to another. However most home users are not very comfortable using command line tools. This is why there are many Graphical user interfaces available... -
Converting PDF to Word Doc or Editable Text
Posted on September 4, 2010 | No CommentsI recently came across this situation where I had a PDF file containing text which I needed to convert so that I could work on the text. Apparantely it is not as difficult as it sounds. In fact there are... -
WordPress: Displaying External RSS Feeds
Posted on August 18, 2009 | No CommentsHow to display an external RSS feed on your WordPress blog without causing heavy server load. I wanted to display an external RSS feed on one of my blogs. There were many plugins to display external RSS feed as widgets... -
Free Virtual WebCam Software
Posted on December 22, 2008 | No CommentsVirtual webcam is an application that creates an stream of images to simulate a web cam stream. Such applications are useful to add text or visual effects to a webcam stream and/or to broadcast the same webcam to stream to... -
What to Publish on Your Small Business Website
Posted on October 15, 2008 | 1 CommentThis post is part of a series. To read more posts from this series go to “Creating a Small Business Website“. Content is the king on web. No one is going to spend more than a couple of seconds on... -
How to find a Good and Reliable Webhosting
Posted on October 6, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis post is part of a series. To read more posts from this series go to “Creating a Small Business Website“. There are thousands of companies out there offering cheap and affordable web hosting but not all of them are... -
Google Docs: Using Fonts for Other Languages
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsHow to use Google Docs for with fonts for other languages. Such as Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and Persian (right-to-left script) or any other east asian languages requiring complex scripting. I write short stories for children in Urdu language. In order... -
HowTo: Add Spam Protection to Forms
Posted on September 16, 2008 | No CommentsWhile looking at the visitors log I discovered that someone came searching for “anti-spam for html form pages”. They landed to the page where I talked about the missing spam protection feature in Google Docs Forms. So I guess they... -
How To Buy Gifts for My Niece or Nephew
Posted on September 9, 2008 | No CommentsIt is really difficult to buy gifts for children. Specially when you never had any children of your own, and you want to buy a little gift for your neice nephew, or some friend’s children. Buying gifts for kids is...